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If Minix's license wouldn't be BSD, they would use some other BSD licensed OS or develop it's own...
by pulse7 9y ago
If Minix's license wouldn't be BSD, they would use some other BSD licensed OS or develop it's own...
- userbinator 9y agoEarlier versions of ME (the one with an ARC core) used ThreadX RTOS --- proprietary, commercially licensed. I guess Intel eliminated a huge chunk of those licensing costs by moving to x86+Minix instead.
- mrighele 9y agoWhich in a way it is better also for end users. At least we don't have to pay the license for a software that we don't want to run on our computer :-)
- Radim 9y agoDoes this argument have a name? "If I didn't do [SOME HORRIBLE THING X], someone else would, so I might as well do it myself?" When googling, I only found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/3wclk6/even_if_i_dont_do_it_someone_else_will_does_this/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/3wclk6/even_...
- kodablah 9y agoBad phrasing. The argument is more like "If [this awesome thing X] wasn't available, people would have to find a maybe-less-than-desirable alternative." The name for it is practicality.
- wongarsu 9y agoThey chose Minix, so it seems reasonable to assume that Minix was the best option. If Minix would not have been BSD, they would have had to choose a worse option or spend significant money to build their own OS. Both options would have cut into ME's budget and might have reduced its capabilities. "If A wouldn't, then B would" is a weird argument imho. It's basically equivalent to saying "If we can't destroy C in one blow, there's no point in attacking them".
- kodablah 9y ago> might have reduced its capabilities And security and many other things. Surely you aren't arguing that an even more closed environment is ideal just because of a minor budget spend for a large company.